Work and Mental Health in Social Context

2011/01/01 by Mark Tausig, Rudy Fenwick · 1 citation
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Employment and Welfare Studies #Workplace Health and Well-being #Health disparities and outcomes

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-0625-9

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Abstract

Anyone who has ever had a job has probably experienced work-related stress at some point or another. For many workers, however, job-related stress is experienced every day and reaches more extreme lev

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